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Treasury & Cash Management: Who’s Who

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ADCB’s transaction banking division, which has won numerous industry accolades for cash management and trade services, is making great strides under Subramanian’s watch.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Cindy Murray

Head of global treasury product, platforms and eChannel

Murray transformed the bank’s eChannel solutions to create an integrated, multichannel experience for clients based on Web 2.0 technologies.

Barclays

Maurice Cleaves

Managing director and global head of treasury products

Cleaves has made a significant difference to the bank’s proposition with the delivery of Barclays Pingit for Corporates, a mobile business payments service, and the rollout of the corporate e-banking platform Barclays.Net.

Becton Dickinson

John Gallagher

Vice president, treasurer

Becton Dickinson is a US Fortune 500 medical technology firm. Gallagher spent most of his career working at GE and Ford Motor Company. At GE he was responsible for debt and derivatives.

BMO Financial

Andrew Irvine

Group SVP and head, corporate payments North America

Irvine is responsible for delivering revenue growth, customer loyalty and risk performance in the North American corporate card, treasury management and merchant acquirer lines at BMO Financial.

Griffiths sets strategy and helps drive revenue growth in the Canadian bank’s business deposits, payments, cash management and trade finance businesses, including management of the sales, product and service teams.

Citi

Fernando Iraola

Managing director, treasury and trade solutions head Latin America

Iraola has a long history in financial services in Latin America, positioning Citi as a leading cash management and trade services bank.

Shan is responsible for global treasury organization, including capital management, pensions, investments and cash management, at the Fortune 500 professional services firm.

MasterCard

Juan Rajlin

Corporate treasurer

Rajlin’s treasury team is integrated into MasterCard’s core business operations, which processes more than $1 trillion annually in MasterCard transactions. Rajlin was previously assistant treasurer at General Motors.

Mayerhofer

Peter Schädelbauer

Commercial director

Schädelbauer’s areas of expertize at the German engineering firm include foreign exchange and cash management, process optimization, special guarantee constructs and joint venture models.

Slawther has spent most of his career working for companies undergoing major financial restructuring. Now at Oman’s OCTAL Petrochemicals, the largest PET (polyethylene terephthalate) resin manufacturer in the Middle East, his job is ensuring that financing is in place to meet its ambitious growth plans.

Petrobras

Gustavo Tardin Barbosa

Global head of corporate finance

Barbosa has held various managerial positions at Petrobras, the largest Brazilian corporation by assets, including global head of financial planning and risk management, controller of Petrobras International and CFO of Petrobras America and Petrobras UK.

Royal Bank of Scotland

Steve Everett

Head of global cash management

Everett is responsible for developing and promoting innovative cash management solutions for the UK-based bank. Previously, he delivered the bank’s overall liquidity and FX proposition.

RTL Group

François Masquelier

Senior vice president of treasury and corporate finance

Masquelier has been with the Luxembourg media and entertainment company since 1997. He is also president of the Association of Corporate Treasurers of Luxembourg.

Sodaify began her career at the French bank as a senior product manager in charge of cash management. She is heavily involved in implementing SEPA.

Standard Chartered

Ashutosh Kumar

Managing director and global head for corporate cash and trade

Kumar was instrumental in delivering the world’s first synthetic securitization of trade finance loans for the bank. He is also chair of the Global Trade Industry Council at BAFT-IFSA, an industry association for finance and trade professionals.

SWIFT

André Casterman

Head of corporate and supply chain markets

Casterman heads strategy and business development in the corporate and trade markets for the global bank messaging network.

Tiffany & Co

Mike Connolly

Vice president, treasurer

Connolly is responsible for treasury, financial and operational risk management, tax, credit/ collections, payments fraud and business continuity at US high-end retailer Tiffany & Co. He is also a past chairman of the Association for Financial Professionals.

Straußfeld assumed his current role after the merger of Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank and UniCredit in 2005. He is chairman of the IBOS Association, an international banking network.

Virgin Media

Rick Martin

Group director, treasury & investor relations

Martin became group treasurer in 2005 and head of investor relations in 2008. From 2008–2012, he oversaw UK-based Virgin Media’s creation of a new capital structure that resulted in upgrades from all three ratings agencies. Interest expenses were also reduced. In June this year Virgin Media was acquired by US cable giant Liberty Global.

Wells Fargo

Laura Orcutt

SVP and group product manager

Orcutt is responsible for the development and profitability of the US bank’s ACH, mobile depository and prepaid card products. Her work in minimizing ACH fraud earned the NACHA Quality Award.

Patel has provided valuable operational expertise working for global multinationals (Kimberly Clark, GE) in the US and internationally. Upon completion of Xylem’s spin-off from ITT in 2011, Patel was named treasurer of the Fortune 500 water technology firm.